News for the New Year
Welcome to 2009! I hope you all had a happy festive period – I had a rather hectic few days rushing betweeen my Christmas and Tom’s, but it was lovely to see my family again, however briefly, and I now have lots of new books and board games and cooking pots to play with, so all good.
In other news, at the end of last year, I gave in my notice at my day job – so I’m now officially a full-time author – hurrah! It is very nice not having to go into work and pretend to be interested in invoices, but rather scary to have to sit down every day and actually write something. If you want to know what I do all day, you might be interested in this, which I wrote for the lovely people in Manchester, who have voted Ways to Live Forever onto the shortlist for the 2009 Manchester Book Award. Many thanks.
In America, I made it onto the Horn Book Fanfare 2008; The Horn Book‘s pick of the best children’s books of 2008. It makes me particularly happy to be sandwiched between Terry Pratchett and Hilary McKay. I was also mentioned in the end of year round-up in The Irish Independent and was a book of the year in The Sunday Business Post (four critics down). And anyone who wants to know what I sound like might also want to visit this website, where you can hear me pronounce my name. Strange but true.
Wishing you all good luck and happiness wherever you may want to travel this year,
Sally
October 2, 2009 @ 4:57 pm
I love your books!
I read ways to live forever in 1 night and I’ve nearly finished reading season of secrets!!!
I came to warblington to see you!
You singned season of secrets and put a stamp of the green man on my front page!
Sally forever!
February 25, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
Hello Sally
Thank you for leaving us a message on our book group website. We are all reading your book at the moment as you know and we were so excited to see your message to us. We will leave our comments on the Ways to Live Forever site. Thank you.
Kiera.
January 22, 2009 @ 9:34 pm
Sally
I am sure you will be a superb fulltime author and maybe it will mean you can get the next book written a bit quicker for all of us avid fans. Having been lucky enough to read the early proof of Seasons and loved every word of it, I just don’t want to have to wait aslong for the third one!
I have been constantly recommending Ways all year and think that Seasons will have just as much demand to be read by readers.Looking forward to you visiting Liverpool and helping get more children reading your sensational books.
Tony